Manhunter (DVD) Reviews

What’s it about? -------------------- Will Graham, the man who put the notorious Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter behind bars, is persuaded to take up one last case, pursuing serial killer “The Tooth Fairy”. Who’s in it? ---------------- The principal actor is William L Petersen as Will Graham. Petersen is brilliant, ...  Read the complete review

The Story ====== The story of Hannibal Lecter is probably familiar to most people by now. Most people would also associate Anthony Hopkins with the role, and he has played it well. However, Hopkins was not the first to play the charming serial killer. That honour went to Brian Cox, an excellent and underused actor. The film is ...  Read the complete review

Many people may not be aware that before Silence of the Lambs, its sequel, Hannibal and its prequel, Red Dragon and the whole Hannibal Lector phenomena, there was a film that started the ball rolling. Manhunter is the film that brought Lector (then spelt Lecktor) to the film worlds attention, and although later remade as Red Dragon, its is this ...  Read the complete review

If you don't like this film you must have been born with the chromosones of a Polish fox baiter. In fact, if you haven't seen this film and have seen SILENCE OF THE LAMBS you should leave this well alone, you wouldn't understand it. It would be like a chimp attempting to read Little red riding hood, and then crying and throwing his ...  Read the complete review

1991 and Silence Of The Lambs is released, slowly etching it's way into success and classic territory. Yet the majority of audiences were unaware that a few years earlier Dr Hannibal Lecter had graced the screen in Manhunter, an adaptation of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon. In fact out of the three films to feature Hannibal purists say this is ...  Read the complete review

Background Originally released in 1986, manhunter is a film that is not widely known to the 'masses' yet to die hard movie fans this film is a far more acknowledged film, and while opinions are split upon its impact and realism, it certainly is a landmark film, forming the first in a sequel of highly popular films, with the ...  Read the complete review

What with Hannibal about to open at the cinema worldwide and the Criterion DVD of Silence of the Lambs going out of print, what better time could there be for Anchor Bay to release their DVD version of Manhunter. Anchor Bay have released two version of Manhunter on is only the theatrical with all the extras the other comes with a second disk ...  Read the complete review